A Defense Budget at the Crossroads Jonathan Masters, Council on Foreign Relations A recent decrease in the U.S. defense budget, as recommended by the Pentagon, has been evaluated as both practical and dangerous. Although financing is protected for the Navy, Air Force, and special operations forces; the total active army will shrink and various bases […]
Libya has been called a “model intervention.” Could you tell us more about the mission and what made it such? I think first and foremost it showed us that NATO can work and work fast. We had a UN Security Council resolution, the alliance – 28 nations, as well as Arab partners and European partners […]
How was the military restructured and why? Well, if you think about it, when I came into the Pentagon in 2001, we had moved into the 21st century but we’d also moved into the information age. And Governor Bush, running for president, had given a speech or two at the Citadel to point out the […]
Let’s start with intervention. That’s one of the topics we’re looking at for next season. When do we intervene? When do we not intervene? I think most people would see Libya as a successful example of intervention. Do you agree with that? And if so, what elements made it so? Well, I think that’s a […]
The total known land area occupied by U.S. bases and facilities is 15,654 square miles — bigger than Washington DC, Massachusetts, and New Jersey combined. Rediff News <http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-12-interesting-facts-you-did-not-know-about-us-military/20111025.htm> It took 99 days for the fires at Ground Zero to be extinguished completely. At 8.46am on 11 September the fires started as the first plane hit […]
Asymmetric warfare is warfare in which opposing groups or nations have unequal military resources, and the weaker opponent uses unconventional weapons and tactics, as terrorism, to exploit the vulnerabilities of the enemy. Biowarfare is the use of disease-producing microorganisms, toxic biological products, or organic biocides to cause death or injury to humans, animals, or plants. […]
